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November 29, 2012, 1:45 AM

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will ‘Vigorously Defend’ Itself — PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @mathewi

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′ — When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to …

PeopleBrowsr Blog:

PeopleBrowsr Wins Temporary Restraining Order Compelling Twitter to Provide Firehose Access — PeopleBrowsr and Twitter appeared in San Francisco Superior Court today. PeopleBrowsr won a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose access.

More: CNET, AllThingsD and The Next Web. Tweets: @rabite

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It — As Chief Executive Tim Cook shifts executive responsibilities around at Apple Inc., Eddy Cue is emerging as one of the biggest beneficiaries. — A member of Apple's old guard, the 23-year company veteran rose through the ranks as co-founder Steve Jobs's right-hand man …

More: CNET, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Shoutpedia, Gizmodo, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Quartz and iFans. Tweets: @jessicalessin

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's new iTunes 11 expected tomorrow following delay due to engineering issues — In a profile of Apple SVP Eddy Cue, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's new iTunes 11 app will debut tomorrow (Thursday). The report further claims that the new media player was delayed due …

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Was Just Put In A Bizarre Situation — And Now Some People Have A Decision To Make — Yesterday, three news stories appeared that reported essentially the same thing: — Board members at Groupon were discussing firing the company's CEO, Andrew Mason.

More: Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

More: Business Insider and PandoDaily

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Groupon's Andrew Mason: Of Course My Board Is Discussing Replacing Me. But I Want to Stay.

More: Business Insider, AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, PandoDaily and Mashable!. Tweets: @hblodget

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates — Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company is planning …

More: PC Magazine, Neowin, iFans, digitaltrends.com, ITworld.com, Softpedia News, BGR, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, LAPTOP Magazine, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Windows 8 Beta, gHacks Technology News, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, Winsyde and WebProNews

Tweets: @tomwarren and @maryjofoley

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft promises Windows Phone 7.8 update in Q1 2013, new models running the software coming shortly — Today Microsoft promised to bring the Windows Phone 7.8 update to market early next year for current Windows Phone 7.5 devices, and that new handsets running the software would be sold running …

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Sees Surge in Windows Phones on Faster Software

More: Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, AllThingsD, BGR, The Next Web and PhoneArena

Wall Street Journal:

Dell, Intel in Talks for Stake in Sharp — TOKYO—Sharp Corp. is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet and has offered a stake to Dell Inc., among others, in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology, according to people familiar with the discussions.

More: Engadget. Tweets: @wsj and @trixxy

George Avalos / Mercury News:

Apple expands into Santa Clara — SANTA CLARA — Apple (AAPL) is planting its flag in Santa Clara in a big way for the first time during the technology giant's current shopping spree for new offices, agreeing to occupy a site where Apple could locate 1,200 or more workers.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, MacNN and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@mercbizbreak

Bill Flook / Washington Business Journal:

LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. … LivingSocial Inc. is slated to launch a major round of layoffs Thursday, with as many as 400 job cuts expected across its U.S. workforce, according to sources with knowledge of the daily deal giant's plans. — Those cuts are expected to span …

More: CNET, City Desk, Washington Times, Mashable!, Washington Post, DCist, City Desk, Talking Points Memo, bizjournals and Business Insider

Eric Gilmore / Google Apps Developer Blog:

Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing — Would you like to programmatically publish some web content? Or let your users do so in the context of your Drive app? — This is possible now with Google Drive. Your app can now insert static web assets in a publicly shared folder …

Patricia Sellers / Fortune:

Watch: Full interview with Yahoo's Marissa Mayer — Here is Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer talking with me Tuesday evening in her first interview since she joined the troubled web giant from Google (GOOG) in July. — At the Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto, California …

More: The Verge, PhoneArena, CNET, IntoMobile, Fortune, SocialTimes, AdAge, Mashable! and Business Insider

Eva Dou / Digits:

Windows 8 Touchscreen Laptops See Slow Start — One month into the launch of Windows 8, sales are sluggish, say some Asian PC makers - even the ones making the most popular products. — “Demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now,” said Asustek Computer Inc. Chief Financial Officer David Chang.

More: The Register, Gizmodo, Neowin, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, ZDNet, Datamation.com and Business Insider

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’

More: Digits, CNET, Know Your Cell, WinBeta, Neowin, Ars Technica, CNET and LiveSide.net

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google's Horowitz: Facebook is social network of the past — Google+ chief Bradley Horowitz says ads in the Facebook social feed are like sandwich boards — there's no context. But when you're searching on Google and a friend recommends something, that matters more.

More: Wired, AllFacebook, PandoDaily and NextBigWhat

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @joshconstine

Dena Aubin / Reuters:

Audit firms sued in HP's Autonomy acquisition — (Reuters) - A new shareholder lawsuit over Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of British software firm Autonomy has named Big Four audit firms Deloitte and KPMG as defendants, alleging they missed numerous red flags about Autonomy's accounting.

Tom Giles / Bloomberg:

Hewlett-Packard Credit Rating Cut by Moody's on Competition

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle

Hoang Nguyen / YouTube Blog:

YouTube automatic captions now in six European languages — Captions are important to make sure everyone—including deaf, hard-of-hearing, and viewers who speak other languages—can enjoy videos on YouTube. — In 2009, you first saw a feature that automatically creates captions on YouTube videos …

More: The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, ReelSEO Online Video …, SlashGear, TechCrunch, SocialTimes and Softpedia News

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? — I've been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I've spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it.

More: SmoothSpan Blog. Tweets: @pkedrosky, @bryce, @danprimack, @ponystasia and @davepell

Official Android Blog:

Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app — You're making your list, you're checking it twice — and now you can do it from anywhere. — Just in time for this year's holiday season, you can edit Google Sheets on your mobile device, just like you can with Google Docs.

More: Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, GadgeTell, TechCrunch, TUAW, Google Enterprise Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, 9to5Mac and 9to5Google

Jennifer Smith / Law Blog:

LegalZoom Gets in the Ring with Rocket Lawyer — Online legal documents company LegalZoom.com Inc. is suing one of its rvials, Google-backed Rocket Lawyer Inc., over alleged violations of Federal Trade Commission guidelines and what it calls unfair business tactics “for the purpose of injuring LegalZoom.”

More: TechCrunch and San Francisco Chronicle

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Will.i.am launches pricey i.am+ camera add-ons for iPhone, we go hands on (video) — So, we learned two things today. Firstly, Will.i.am is able to attract quite a media scrum, and secondly, national press photographers have sharp elbows. Nevertheless, we braved the London debut …

More: Telegraph, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, Gizmodo, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and parislemon. Tweets: @panzer

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Bing Attacks Google Shopping With “Scroogled” Campaign, Forgets It's Guilty Of Same Problems — Bing is attacking Google over its shift to a pay-for-play shopping search engine through a new “Scroogled” site, pledging that Bing has “honest search.” Great campaign, if it were true. It's not.

More: The Register, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, Bing, Computerworld, AllThingsD and Associated Press. See also Mediagazer

Vibhu Norby / philosophically:

Why We're Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first — There has been much discussion from the venture capitalist angle on the failings of mobile companies, including posts by Fred Wilson and Om Malik. I wanted to share my perspective, having been the co-founder of a mobile-first startup …

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